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Chimpanzees may leave the research laboratory. In the coming weeks, US National Institutes of Health's (NIH) will probably "retirement" many of the 451 chimpanzees that it supports in primate facilities. He also put a hold on further studies and is considering phasing out several experiments in progress. The NIH decision comes following a report published by the Institute of Medicine in December 2011 found many studies on chimpanzees "useless". What, if any, research must continue with chimpanzees in captivity? Are there ethical means to conduct biomedical studies of our closest relatives? And what does the captive chimpanzee behavioral studies show that can not be learned from the study of chimpanzees in the wild, and vice versa?
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Brian Hare
Brian Hare is an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Its made of behavioral and cognitive studies of both chimpanzees and bonobos living in African sanctuaries. He is a founding member of the Ape Research Consortium, which brings together experts to study the epidemiology of human and non-human ape, genetics, neurobiology, cognition, behavior and conservation.
Pascal Gagneux
Pascal Gagneux is an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, San Diego. He studied wild chimpanzees in the Tai Forest, Ivory Coast, and made laboratory research with biological samples obtained from two wild chimpanzees in captivity.
William Hopkins
psychologist William Hopkins studies the neurological correlates of various aspects of cognition in chimpanzees. His research has focused on the language and communication, fairness and social behavior. It is based on both the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Georgia State University, both in Atlanta.
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